Since one of the first Apostles, handpicked by Christ Himself, was a liar, thief and betrayer, I don't know why anyone's surprised that later Christians have followed in his footsteps - in every church.

Call it the Apostolic Succession of Judas!

Logged

"Sometimes, you just gotta say, 'OK, I still have nine live, two-headed animals' and move on.'' (owner of Coney Island freak show, upon learning he'd been outbid on a 5-legged puppy)

"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

I mean, for crying out loud, the Pope, who is 83, is constantly saddled with this "Hitler youth" nonsense when he was barely 18 when the war ended, and he ran off as soon as he could. Most everyone who was old enough to actually have some responsibility for anything is long dead. It is preposterous to pretend that Pius XII was directing the actions of a bunch of middle- and east-European irregulars.